Ales Cernivec
Infrastructure And DevOps Lead at Scilife
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAles Cernivec is an Infrastructure and DevOps lead with 14 years of experience blending cloud engineering, infosec, and research-driven development. Currently at Scilife, he previously spent nearly two decades at XLAB where he progressed from researcher and sysadmin to Chief Security Officer and project manager, stewarding infrastructure for many EU and commercial projects. His background includes deep work on OpenStack and federated cloud efforts (Contrail, Grizlli) and repeated leadership in high-pressure cyber exercises like Locked Shields. Ales pairs academic rigor—a Master’s in Computer Science and early research on distributed algorithms—with hands-on operational expertise managing client engagements for Huawei, RedHat/IBM/Kyndryl, and others. He’s a conference speaker and DEFCON attendee who translates cutting-edge research into secure, production-grade systems. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who clears cloudy architectures into reliable, auditable platforms.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Univerza v Ljubljani
German, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (36)
svn9
bit9
git-mirror7
scanning6
runner5
scanner5
vulnerability4
security4
api4
interaction4
react4
openvas3
servicenow3
ruby2
supply-chain-security2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alescernivec/cernivec-si
Feb 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
alescernivec/manageiq-providers-cisco_intersight
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
ManageIQ provider for Cisco Intersight
Contributions:14 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
intersightcisco-intersightmanageiqprovider
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.